Company of Heroes Anthology + Eastern Front (2xDVD5)

[psyL0w]

Here is an installer for Company of Heroes and the huge mod: Eastern Front.

The installer includes actually two setup programs: One for the original game and the other for Eastern Front.

Changes featured in that installer version
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- System test based on color LEDs
- Play FLV (FLV4) videos

Credits
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Archiver / Extraction : Bulat Ziganshin
Background pictures: Relic Entertainment (COH setup) and Archaic Entertainment Team (EF setup)
Callback routine: Restools
Compiler : Jordan Russell
Decompression Control: ProFrager
Drawing: BurroDiablo
Graphics engine: South.Tver
FLV splitter: Guliverkli2
Music: Ian Livingstone (COH) and Alex Cottrell (EF)
Music Player: Un4seen Developments
Opening video : Relic Entertainment
Script: based on CIU Yener90
Video Player: TLama


How to use it
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1- Install Company of Heroes and all the patches up to up to 2.602.
2- Compress the content of the game directory with FreeArc splited in 5 archives named data1.cab data2.cab, data3.cab, data4.cab, data5.cab. With the following config, COH can be compressed within 6.1 Go:
a -ep1 -r -ed -lc2048 -ld512 -mt2 –mdelta+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d158m:fb273:mc1000:lc8 "C:\temp\DataX.cab" -dp"C:\Program Files (x86)\THQ\Company of Heroes"
3– Install the mod Eastern Front in a separate folder. Move Uninstaller.exe file in a temp folder and compress the content in a single archive named EF.cab with FreeArc in the same way (~1.7Go)
Original Uninstaller.exe file can now be restored and the game uninstalled with the original setup.
4- Deflate the attached archive in a temp folder. In the Support folder, you can copy the game manual and readme files. The localization is managed as follows:
Manual_XX.pdf with XX is DE for German, FR for French and so on. Whatever, it is recommend to put the English version without extension (ie Manual.pdf) as it’s the default one selected if none other is available.
5- Fill in DVD1 with the first DataX.cab archives and DVD2 with the rest: last DataX.cab and EF.cab

Tested on Win7 x64
Language supported: en, fr, de, es, it
Eastern Front mod can be downloaded here
EF Installer enables to install compatibility patch for 2.602

[HellRazor]

I know I said that I will stay away but I can't because of this. Here we go, history repeats itself.

Just in case anyone cares, this is Yener's CIU 1.0.0.6... From the structure of folders within Setup.cab to the FileNames inside it.

It's a funny thing that, when you check the properties of the Autorun.exe and Setup.exe

All strings, that had Yener's name are gone and you can see that CIU is made by Psyl0w.

Need I say more? Is this gonna be sanctioned now while there is a definitive proof or is there gonna be a waiting period and then nothing done about it?

[psyL0w]

Dear HellRazor,

I’m disappointed you haven’t exposed the ini file and you miss the best part: that installer is fully compatible with CIU!
I don’t protect my installer resources so you can recompile it with exe metadata you like (though you will just lose a couple of features)

Merry Christmas!



EDIT: and by the way thank for pointing that bug about the versioninfo fields, I forgot constants were not allowed

[NamelessOne]

Originally Posted by psyL0w

Dear HellRazor,

I’m disappointed you haven’t exposed the ini file and you miss the best part: that installer is fully compatible with CIU!
I don’t protect my installer resources so you can recompile it with exe metadata you like (though you will just lose a couple of features)

Merry Christmas!



EDIT: and by the way thank for pointing that bug about the versioninfo fields, I forgot constants were not allowed

Dude, you took someone else work and put your name on it. Sure it's compatible with CIU, because it IS CIU. You may have changed a few things in the script, but it's still Yener's work

[HellRazor]

Dear Psyl0w.

I don't know how active you were in past couple of months and if you saw posts/topics that started to shatter the community of this forum.

I am not opposing any kind of modifications that you have made to the script. If You modified the script, you deserve that people know that you did something to improve the code.

However, with your actions, you have done something that I was trying to protect and something that ultimately led to a huge dispute between the Staff of this forum and a group of people that formed another website so that they can protect the original creators of the Installer Engines.

You removed all mentions of Yener in your script. You say that your script is compatible with Yener's and that IS true because your script is a derivation of Yener's CIU. You took down his name, plastered yours and now you are promoting that same installer as it was written entirely by yourself.

I am not asking you to remove your conversion and stop making them all together.
All I want is for you to put back Yener's name on the places where it originally was.
There is a place where Editor's name (Conversion Creator's name) should go and it is displayed when Splash image is enabled.

[psyL0w]

Originally Posted by HellRazor

I don't know how active you were in past couple of months and if you saw posts/topics that started to shatter the community of this forum.

Well, I read childish debates and saw over-inflated ego that led certain people to leave the forum and create their own. Some of them return sometime …
Whatever, new heads have taken lead here and as far as I know they make a pretty nice job.

I am not opposing any kind of modifications that you have made to the script. If You modified the script, you deserve that people know that you did something to improve the code.

I don’t try to deserve anything. For gratefulness and recognition, there are other things that creating installers.

However, with your actions, you have done something that I was trying to protect and something that ultimately led to a huge dispute between the Staff of this forum and a group of people that formed another website so that they can protect the original creators of the Installer Engines.

and I am sure you protect with the same enthusiasm all creators from Russian forums that developed all most everything that makes run the installers.

You removed all mentions of Yener in your script. You say that your script is compatible with Yener's and that IS true because your script is a derivation of Yener's CIU. You took down his name, plastered yours and now you are promoting that same installer as it was written entirely by yourself.

First of all, I don’t promote anything and I don’t expect anything from anybody. I make installers for me and I share some of them here. If people like them great! Otherwise they can avoid non helpful comments (bug notifications and suggestions are welcome but not necessarily taking into account)

I am not asking you to remove your conversion and stop making them all together.

You’re too generous my Lord!

All I want is for you to put back Yener's name on the places where it originally was.
There is a place where Editor's name (Conversion Creator's name) should go and it is displayed when Splash image is enabled.

No name is displayed by that installer: Yener, my nickname or anybody else. Your suggestion is rejected.

[pakrat2k2]

end of discussion. you've been proven wrong, so just admit it.

[Grumpy]

I certainly agree 'psyL0w' should be doing the right thing and give the right credits to yener for using CIU but excuse me Hellraizer who the hell are you to ask anything to be changed when its 'yener's' work and not yours.

The only thing to shatter the community of this forum was your mob inviting members away, been said many times mate. Your hate for other members keeps bringing you back to watch over us.

All I want is for you to put back Yener's name on the places where it originally was.

You keep saying things like 'I' want this and 'I' want that, well its not your work and really has got nothing to do with you, its 'Yener's' work yes and yener knows where we are if he would like to request for it to be removed.

Your mob thinks it can hold us to Ransom by coming back to Delete your posts and threads then you come crawling back and expect us (the staff) to bend over backwards to help you or remove something which you yourself can not delete. Tsk tsk if you think I will bend over for you Hellraisor but if the original creator (yener) asks me then yes I will comply.

[Grumpy]

I've added the Credits to the first post, thanks for the PM psyL0w